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frogman
Sign in to savethumb|A SEAL Delivery Team member climbs aboard a delivery vehicle before launching from the back of the submarine USS Philadelphia (SSN-690)|USS Philadelphia.
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- Scope of operations
- Mission descriptions
- Defending against frogmen
- Equipment
- Origins of the name
- History
- First frogmen
- Wartime operations
- Wartime developments
- Postwar operations
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|A SEAL Delivery Team member climbs aboard a delivery vehicle before launching from the back of the submarine USS Philadelphia (SSN-690)|USS Philadelphia.
A frogman is someone who is trained in scuba diving or swimming underwater. The term often applies more to professional rather than recreational divers, especially those working in a tactical capacity that includes military, and in some European countries, police work. Such personnel are also known by the more formal names of combat diver, combatant diver, or combat swimmer. The word frogman first arose in the stage name the "Fearless Frogman" of Paul Boyton in the 1870s and later was claimed by John Spence, an enlisted member of the U.S. Navy and member of the OSS Maritime Unit, to have been applied to him while he was training in a green waterproof suit.